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Adhesions
Biomaterials company receives U.S. patent on polymer technology
September 1st, 2003
Life Medical Sciences, Inc., (CHAI) announced that it has been issued a patent covering novel resorbable polymeric materials exhibiting reverse thermal gelation properties that may be used in a variety of biomedical product applications, including implantable drug and cell delivery, gene therapy, and sealants, as well as in the company's main focus of postoperative adhesion prevention products. Dr. Eli Pines, the company's vice president of research, stated, "The novelty of these materials is that they can be delivered to a difficult to access site in the body as a liquid through a syringe or as a spray and, once exposed to body temperature, rapidly transition to a...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2003-09-01)
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